An independent, local authority membership organisation supporting councils around the world.

• local

• Govtech
• Peer networks
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Africa Tech Workers Rising, Kenya is a project to organize and empower front line content moderators and data enrichment workers in the AI data supply chain to improve conditions of pay, workload, health and safety, whistleblower protections, voice and respect.

• labor
• Decent work and economic growth

• Peer networks
• Whistleblowing
• Labor platforms

We’re a growing community of not-for-profit digital leads committed to making the most of digital technology for positive social impact, by sharing best practice and peer-to-peer learning.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Digital transformation

A network of neighborhood groups and network builders organizing to provide aid and support to New Yorkers.

• Access social benefits
• Peer networks

Actively supporting local government technology leaders and their teams through research & content, professional development, consulting services, learning and networking events, membership, workforce connections and recognition programs.

• Govtech
• Peer networks
• Supporting public sector from outside government

A professional association for technologists that serve the public good

• Peer networks
• Trade groups

The IAAA is a community of practice that aims to advance and organise the algorithmic auditing profession, promote AI auditing standards, certify best practices and contribute to the emergence of Responsible AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Peer networks

The movement building better leaders for better democracies

• Build something
• Peer networks

The Public AI Network is a coalition working to bring about public AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer networks
• Governance of AI

We are a global collaborative Internet of Things ecosystem that creates networks, devices and solutions using LoRaWAN®.

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Peer networks

The African League of Cyber-Activists and Bloggers for Democracy, commonly known as AfricTivistes, is the union of bloggers and web-activists from the continent and its diaspora to promote and defend democratic values, human rights and good governance through digital means.

• diaspora

• Peer networks

The Africa Data Leadership Initiative (ADLI) is a ​peer learning and exchange network designed by and for African policymakers, legislators, researchers, technologists, and digital rights advocates working on data governance and digital platforms and services.

• Digital transformation
• Peer networks
• Data governance

The Digital Donors Exchange, or DDX, is a community of global digital development funders who are committed to improving the lives of all people through harnessing that power.

• development

• Peer networks
• Tools for Funders

Creating and supporting independent news entrepreneurs

• Media
• Journalism
• Peer networks

56 countries working together for prosperity, democracy and peace

• human rights

• Peer networks

Engaged Cities is a community of practice for news organizations with engagement-first approaches to serving U.S. cities.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

The Statewide News Collective is a community for news organizations serving statewide audiences launched by The Lenfest Institute, RevLab at The Texas Tribune, and Spotlight PA.

• state

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

The Audience Community of Practice is a group providing support for audience development news professionals.

• Media
• Journalism
• Peer networks

UN-OCHA's Peer-2-Peer (P2P) Support Project is a tool of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)

• United Nations

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Peer networks

Network Impact has created a series of Network Know-How Guides for early-stage network builders who want to learn how to develop healthy, impactful and sustainable networks.

• guides

• Meet the others
• Peer networks

We are the largest community-based career platform for urbanists working on city challenges worldwide.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Meet the others
• Find a job or hire someone
• Socialize online

In the municipal partnership program, ICLD offers local governments in a number of partner countries and Swedish municipalities and regions, the possibility to enter result oriented collaborations for exchange and peer learning.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Peer networks

Out in Tech is the world’s largest non-profit community of LGBTQ+ tech leaders.

• LGBTQI

• Meet the others
• Peer networks

We foster and nurture communities throughout the world working on digital rights

• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others
• Digital security and privacy

A collective of solutions journalists

• Media
• Peer networks
• Solutions journalism

Data Rights for Digital Workers

• labor

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Peer networks

Build, fund, and fuel Latinx power with us.

• racial equity
• Latinx

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Peer networks

Computer Professional’s Union (CPU) is a mass organization of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) professionals and advocates aspiring to promote ICT for the people.​

• Peer networks
• Professional associations

The national voice of municipalities relating to information and communications technology.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Peer networks
• Trade groups

As part of the Beeck Center’s Digital Service Collaborative , a project in partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation, we will knit together a collection of state agencies based on common needs to help them collaboratively procure, develop, and maintain the software that they all depend on

• local

• Govtech
• Peer networks
• Partner networks and coalitions

Last year we piloted an initiative called Community Connections at the Responsible Data mailing list, where we connected two or more members of the community based on their shared interests in responsible data(RD)-related topics, allowing them to chat about topics and projects related to responsible data.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Peer networks

Hacks/Hackers is an international grassroots community of people who seek to inspire and inform each other to build the future of media.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Peer networks

Bienvenidxs!

• youth

• Academia
• Peer networks

The European Capital of Democracy Initiative will build a strong network of Cities that will foster participation; a platform for hope, and for exercising the will and power to change our world for the better.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Peer networks
• Challenges

Initiators of successful political projects in a specific area of politics provide their know-how, experience and dos-and-don’ts in a highly motivating dialogue

• Conferences
• Peer networks

The Institute for Representative Government (IRG) was established in 1988 by a group of former Members of Congress as an independent, bipartisan, non-profit organization to provide high level, professional exchange programs for parliamentarians from developing or newly-established democracies.

• Peer networks

Our experienced and diverse team of advisors supports municipalities and organizations of all sizes across Canada on a range of data and tech issues. We work alongside our partners’ teams to assess their needs, define problems, mobilize research and knowledge, design solutions and support their implementation. Contact Us

• trainings
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Peer networks
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Journalists in ICFJ's unparalleled network produce news reports that lead to better governments, economies and societies.

• free speech

• Media
• Peer networks

The Inter-American Development Bank's network for developers working with governments in Latin America and the Caribbean

• Govtech
• Meet the others
• Peer networks

We define ourselves as an alliance that involves the media, a central newsroom and a network of freelance collaborators.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Peer networks

the largest gathering of black women data leaders and professionals

• racial equity

• Conferences
• Peer networks

We are an interdisciplinary group of experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.

• labor

• Research and policy centers
• Peer networks

People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.

• People Powered
• CTFG partners

• Engagement tech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Participatory budgeting

/dev/color is the most powerful community of Black software engineers, technologists, and executives in the world.

• racial equity

• Peer networks

A community of practice for data analysts across City agencies that has since grown to over 800 members at more than 60 agencies.

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Data science for social good

La Academia de Innovación Política es una plataforma que busca generar espacios de formación virtuales y presenciales para la transferencia y co-construcción de conceptos, prácticas, metodologías y herramientas de gobernanza democrática en los escenarios actuales.

• trainings

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others

All about changing communities, our workplaces, and the industry for the better.

• Gender Equality
• women

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

A Feminist AI Research network that gathers a cohort of social scientists, economists, and activists, side by side with data, machine learning and computer scientists to discuss how to fix the system and leverage AI for women’s rights.

• Gender Equality
• women

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

a research and teaching cooperative

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Peer networks

Code for All’s new program brings people together who work similar civic tech roles, but at different organizations and in different parts of the world.

• Peer networks